The only time you run out of chances is when you stop taking them.
ALEXANDER POPEIn faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind’s concern is charity.
More Alexander Pope Quotes
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Women use lovers as they do cards; they play with them a while, and when they have got all they can by them, throw them away, call for new ones, and then perhaps lose by the new all they got by the old ones.
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All seems infected that th’ infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
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The vanity of human life is like a river, constantly passing away, and yet constantly coming on.
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The laughers are a majority.
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Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.
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On life’s vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.
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And seem to walk on wings, and tread in air.
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The greatest magnifying glasses in the world are a man’s own eyes when they look upon his own person.
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Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.
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Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence.
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Physicians are in general the most amiable companions and the best friends, as well as the most learned men I know.
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Learning is like mercury, one of the most powerful and excellent things in the world in skillful hands; in unskillful, the most mischievous.
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Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never is, but always To be Blest.
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Eve left Adam, to meet the Devil in private.
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True wit is nature to advantage dressed; What oft was thought, but ne’er so well expressed.
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